On November 26 at around 8am, AK, 31, operations assistant at the company’s store, noticed that the glass of a window near the emergency door was broken. “I informed a security officer and the police. Together with the police, I checked the place and found that 80 computers were missing."

Police also found out that there were unsuccessful attempts to break the front door of the store. The surveillance cameras showed a person wearing a T-shirt and trousers holding a lamp in his hand. The features of the person were not clear as the cameras did not work well in darkness.

Police investigated the theft and arrested AT, 25 and RK, 32, on January 20 in Sharjah.

AT claimed that two months ago, RK, had asked him for a lift to Jeble Ali Port against Dh10,000. RK came along with two others.

“I rented a car and we drove to Jebel Ali where we observed the area near the store before the two men who accompanied us broke into it and returned after about two hours and loaded the computers into the car. I drove to Abu Hail area where RK told me that he will pay me Dh10,000 after selling and shipping the computers to Uzbekisan. RK did not pay me the amount,” AT told investigators.

Boys & Girls Club burglarized, but community steps up to replace stolen goods

Monroe County Sheriff Rick Ramsay and graduating members of Leadership Monroe Class 22 pledged roughly $7,000 on Friday to help replace cash, computers and an Xbox game console stolen Thursday morning from the Key West Boys & Girls Club.

Boys & Girls Club Director Dan Dombroski attended a luncheon for the Leadership class at the Fly Navy building and mentioned the burglary to several people. The result was an impromptu hat-passing that raised around $2,000.

Ramsay then promised Dombroski $5,000 from the Sheriff's Office Shared Asset Forfeiture Fund, which is financed through the seizure of goods related to crimes.

"You go from the despairs of humanity to an epiphany," Dombroski said. "I mentioned that we had been robbed and they took it upon themselves to pass the hat and raise that money."

Ramsay said he ponied up some of his own cash, but wanted to take it a step further to help the club.

"It touched me as an important issue. They do a great job and it was such a selfish act," he said. "Hopefully they'll end up with some better [equipment] and it'll bring some awareness and help catch these terrible people."

The Boys & Girls Club provides after-school and summer recreational and learning opportunities. During the school year, about 85 kids participate; that goes up to around 130 in the summer.

Key West police are looking for at least two people they say broke into the locked gate around the club building, which is an active construction site at Glynn Archer Elementary School.

Dombroski said eight computers (two for staff and six for the children) were stolen, as well as the video game system and a small safe that contained more than $500 in petty cash.

However, "the lowest thing" the thieves stole was a lock box containing keys to the club's two vehicles and backup keys to its Bayview Park building.

"We had no keys to pick kids up with the vehicles," Dombroski said. "You never realize how vulnerable you are until somebody does something like this."

Police spokeswoman Alyson Crean said witnesses described two Hispanic men with average builds around the building at the time of the burglary. They might have been driving an older, faded light blue pickup.

Anyone with information can call detectives at 809-1015. Tips can be made anonymously by calling Crime Stoppers of the Florida Keys at (800) 346-TIPS

CLEVELAND POLICE ARE looking for information on this woman, who is a person of interest in the theft of a computer from a local hotel.

For the second time in several months, the guest computer from a local hotel was stolen.

According to Detective Bill Parks of the Cleveland Police Department Criminal Investigations Division, a white female informed a desk clerk at Holiday Inn Express that her car had broken down and she needed to use a hotel computer.

The theft occurred about 9:30 p.m. last Tuesday.

Parks said the suspect appeared to be pregnant. Her image was captured in a video security image retrieved for evidence by CPD officials.

Parks also noted the suspect apparently stuffed the Asus all-in-one computer under her jacket and left the premises after the clerk had walked away from the front desk.

The computer was valued at $1,200.

Anyone able to identify the suspect is asked to contact Parks at the CPD at 559-3321.

School computers worth Rs 1.80L stolen

TNN | Apr 17, 2014, 03.38 AM ISTAHMEDABAD: Burglars have broken into a primary government school in Jetalpur near Vatva and stolen computers worth Rs 1.80 lakh. Vatva police said that the thieves had pre-planned the theft and had targeted the school during a two-day holiday.

A complaint of theft has been registered by school principal Niru Makwana. She said that the Jetalpur primary school was broken into during the last two days when the school was closed. She told police that two rooms which were used as computer room and projector room had been found unlocked. Twelve computers and one LED had been stolen from the school. As soon the principal informed the police, a police team along with a dog squad and FSL experts reached the spot.

Vatva police station inspector H J Chaudhary said, "We've registered a complaint on the basis of the statement given by the school principal. After primary investigation we realized that the theft had been pre-planned as the burglars knew exactly which rooms to target. It is possible that a member of the gang of thieves had visited the school on some pretext earlier." Chaudhary added, "During the search operation we have also concluded that the thieves had brought a four-wheeler with them which they used to transport the computers and LED."

Sunday, March 30, 2014

Computers stolen from BOI branch

Chandil: Close on the heels of the loot of Rs 13 lakhs from the Main Post office at Chowka, thieves stole away four computers from the Bank of India branch situated at Milan Chowk under Ichagarh police station area on Saturday.

According to the information given by Kumar Singh, police inspector, Chandil, the thieves failed to steal cash, but managed to make away with the PCs.

Stolen Computers Expose Greenleaf Book Group Vendor, Customer Data

Names, credit card information, e-mail addresses and some mailing addresses may have been exposed.

March 25, 2014

Greenleaf Book Group recently began notifying an undisclosed number of customers that their personal information may have been exposed when five laptop and desktop computers were stolen from the company's headquarters in Austin, Texas on January 18, 2014.

"While we have no evidence that any of the data stored on any of the computers has been accessed, there are password protected (but unencrypted) files and e-mails on at least one of the computers that contain information pertaining to some of the company's current and past customers and vendors," law firm Jackson Walker LLP wrote in a letter [PDF] to the Maryland Attorney General's Office.

The data potentially exposed includes customer and vendor names, credit card information, e-mail addresses, and in some cases, mailing addresses.

"A preliminary assessment indicates that the perpetrator was most likely an employee of the janitorial company employed by our property management company ... We are very upset (to put it mildly) about this incident so please be assured that we are taking every step necessary to properly address this incident with law enforcement and with our property management company (who has informed us that they have recently identified a suspect and have reported that information to the police)," Greenleaf CEO Tanya Hall wrote in the notification letter [PDF].

All those affected are being offered one year of free access to Experian's ProtectMyID Elite identity protection and fraud detection services.

A theft at the University of California at San Francisco may compromise the personal data of some 10,000 people associated with the institution.

The university has sent letters to those it believes have been affected after one of its campuses fell victim to computer theft. UCSF reported that unencrypted desktop computers were stolen on January 11 from the UCSF Family Medicine Center in Lakeshore, Calif.

A technical analysis conducted by the university revealed that the stolen computers contained names, dates of birth, mailing addresses, medical record numbers, health insurance ID numbers and driver’s license numbers. More troubling still, Social Security numbers for 125 people were also on the computers.

In addition to notifying the effected individuals, UCSF has enlisted the aid of the California Department of Public Health, the California Attorney General and federal authorities regarding the breach. As is typically the case with these types of breaches, the University is offering free credit monitoring to those individuals whose Social Security numbers were involved.

The university has also established a phone line to provide information and assistance to those individuals effected by the breach. University officials claim there has not yet been any evidence of the thief trying to use the personal data.

University Breaches Lead Roundup

UCSF Reports Third Incident in Six Months

In this week's breach roundup, the University of California San Francisco reports its third computer theft in six months. Also, the University of Central Oklahoma is notifying 16,000 current and former employees about a breach involving unauthorized access to information stored on a server.

UCSF Reports Third Computer Theft

The University of California San Francisco is notifying almost 10,000 patients about a breach of their personal information after several desktop computers were stolen from the UCSF Family Medicine Center at Lakeshore in early January. This is the third computer theft reported by UCSF in six months.

The stolen computers in the latest incident stored patient information that included names, dates of birth, mailing addresses, medical record numbers, health insurance ID numbers and driver's license numbers. Social Security numbers were also involved for 125 individuals.

UCSF is sending notification letters to affected patients; those individuals whose Social Security numbers were potentially exposed are being offered free credit monitoring services. UCSF says it has no evidence that there has been any attempt to access or use the information contained on the computers.

On Oct. 2, 2013, UCSF Medical Center notified 3,500 patients that certain information, including names and medical record numbers, as well as Social Security numbers for a small number of individuals, may have been compromised following the theft of an unencrypted laptop from an employee's locked car (see: Laptop Stolen from Hospital Employee).

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